I'd figure it like like this....okay LMA is young but not lilliard young...
hopefully even though they be us they get smacked around by the rest of the league then the GM mite consider a full youth movement....

Parsons, DMO, watever picks we have, p-pat, and I would hate to say it but Morris and t-jones.....then we get scrub fillers to finish the season...

[CBS] It's hard to say what could really get Howard back in the good graces of the public eye other than winning. The Rockets probably have to make at least the second round this season and he needs to be the best player on the team.

[QUOTE=rocketboyz1;7351396]I'd figure it like like this....okay LMA is young but not lilliard young...
hopefully even though they be us they get smacked around by the rest of the league then the GM mite consider a full youth movement....

Parsons, DMO, watever picks we have, p-pat, and I would hate to say it but Morris and t-jones.....then we get scrub fillers to finish the season...

I was thinking about this trade scenario today. Lma will be 28 after next season and has an expiring contract in a couple of years when he will be turning 30 and of course will sign the max. Lillard and Batum look like fantastic players and Hickson right now is a beastly rebounder and he I s being played at the 5. Portland have a young promising center in Leonard and literally no one on the bench. It would make a ton of sense for them to move Aldridge now for a bunch of young promising players and draft picks; play hickson at his natural position (4) and play Leonard as a 5. This will only work if they re sign hickson next year and if he actually keeps putting up numbers like this. But the Rox's assets match perfectly with what Portland needs. If Leonard develops nicely I see this trade materializing next summer.

There is no reason for the Blazers to trade LMA. This is not an OKC/Harden situation. LMA is still fairly young and signed to a reasonable contract for the next 3 years.

Maybe Portland would consider a Shabazz type talent in return but we aren't going to win the lottery. Outside of Harden we don't have enough valuable assets to entice them to deal LMA. Josh Smith and the Utah bigs will be entering FA and are more realistic targets.

[QUOTE=rocketboyz1;7351396]I'd figure it like like this....okay LMA is young but not lilliard young...
hopefully even though they be us they get smacked around by the rest of the league then the GM mite consider a full youth movement....

Parsons, DMO, watever picks we have, p-pat, and I would hate to say it but Morris and t-jones.....then we get scrub fillers to finish the season...

I was thinking about this trade scenario today. Lma will be 28 after next season and has an expiring contract in a couple of years when he will be turning 30 and of course will sign the max. Lillard and Batum look like fantastic players and Hickson right now is a beastly rebounder and he I s being played at the 5. Portland have a young promising center in Leonard and literally no one on the bench. It would make a ton of sense for them to move Aldridge now for a bunch of young promising players and draft picks; play hickson at his natural position (4) and play Leonard as a 5. This will only work if they re sign hickson next year and if he actually keeps putting up numbers like this. But the Rox's assets match perfectly with what Portland needs. If Leonard develops nicely I see this trade materializing next summer.